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Risk management in relation to firearms licensing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
An evaluation into risk management by the MPS firearms enquiry team (FET) in relation to firearms licensing. This included an assessment of current methods for assessing risk and an analysis of data on certificates that were refused on application ...
Falade, M.   +3 more
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Opinion: Adapting to the challenges of wildlife management in the 21st Century

open access: yes
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Aniruddha V. Belsare   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Bulk Discount for Multiple Offenders? A Lexical Local Justification

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper offers an original non‐consequentialist justification for the ‘bulk discount’ given to offenders who are sentenced for multiple counts in a single proceeding, a discount that is available in most jurisdictions. Existing justifications for this practice face serious objections. I propose a new account, ‘Lexical Local Justification’.
Peter Chau
wiley   +1 more source

Cigarette- and snus-modified association between unprotected exposure to noise from hunting rifle caliber weapons and high frequency hearing loss. A cross-sectional study among swedish hunters

open access: yesNoise and Health, 2016
Aim: To investigate in this cross-sectional study among Swedish hunters if tobacco use modifies the previously observed association, expressed as prevalence ratio (PR), between unprotected exposure to impulse noise from hunting rifle caliber (HRC ...
Louise Honeth   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Suicide by firearm in Switzerland: who uses the army weapon? Results from the national survey between 2000 and 2010

open access: yesSwiss Medical Weekly, 2018
AIMS In comparison with other central European countries, Switzerland has a high prevalence of gun ownership and a high rate of suicide by shooting.
Nina Thoeni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D‐printed wound channels

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Although soft tissue simulants are widely used in ballistic research, glycerine soap is the only material that offers a clear view of the temporary cavity of a wound channel without the use of optical apparatus. However, the latter still shows some inconvenience mostly on its weight and its dehydration process when cut, making it challenging ...
Fabiano Riva   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearms law deskbook.

open access: yes, 2020
Firearms law deskbook helps prosecutors and defense attorneys identify various firearms offenses based on caselaw and unpublished agency ...
Halbrook, Stephen P.,
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Firearms Legislation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1968
Firearms ...
Mansfield, Mike, 1903-2001
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